Brian Setzer
Brian Setzer
Brian Robert Setzeris an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He first found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly revival group Stray Cats, and revitalized his career in the late 1990s with his Swing revival band, The Brian Setzer Orchestra...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth10 April 1959
CityMassapequa, NY
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational listen loved people playing record room rushed sun tribute
The inspiration for this was my son, who's 18, ... I was playing some old Sun Records, and he and his friends rushed into the room and loved it. I thought that if I did a Sun tribute record I could get more young people to listen to it.
records needs kick-ass
McCartney! Haven't met him and haven't played with him. I would LOVE to. He needs to make a kick-ass rockabilly record.
people guy records
People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
thinking records wow
Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.
record
He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'
blasting exactly guitar rockabilly solos tried updated wild
I never really did rockabilly exactly like they did it in the '50s, ... We always kind of updated it. But I didn't need to go blasting crazy, wild guitar solos around this stuff. I tried to keep it authentic.
copying drum far felt fills ignore original overlooked people rockabilly tricks
I wanted to keep it authentic, ... I even went as far as copying the original drum parts. I felt that was an overlooked part of those recordings. Now when people play rockabilly they ignore the little fills and tricks they used.
computer exists faded file found fragment friend heard research sent tape toward
My friend sent me the song, which I hadn't heard before, ... It faded in toward the middle, and I thought the computer file was broken. But we did research and found out that a tape fragment is all that exists of the song.
beatles covers eddie found gene rockabilly stones
When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,
himself mind
He said it was too long ago for him to put himself back in that mind-set,
bands blew came quite roll swing
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
people played pure stuff
A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.
grunge
I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.
mind nicest people robert
Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.